The suspect accused of stabbing to death US teacher Ibolya Ryan at an Abu Dhabi shopping mall has been identified as Dalal al Hashemi.

The 38-year-old Yemeni woman was arrested today (5 December) in connection with the teacher's murder and is also accused of planting a bomb in front of an Egyptian-American doctor's home, according to ABC.

Police believe she was not a "lone wolf" but her house was "a base of operations".

Interior Minister Saif bin Zayed said in a statement that the suspect "targeted her victims based on nationality alone".

The woman was a wearing a burqa when she stabbed the 47-year-old mother-of-two to death – reportedly up to six times – in the ladies toilets on Reem Island in the upmarket mall in Bourik Mall.

Dramatic footage released by police shows the suspect's arrest and a SWAT swooping at the home at night.

Police released footage of the SWAT team swooping on a home in a night raidAbu Dhabi Police